Yellow Poplar
Cambia offers an affordable, beautiful, and environmentally friendly alternative to tropical hardwoods from endangered rainforests.
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Cambia offers an affordable, beautiful, and environmentally friendly alternative to tropical hardwoods from endangered rainforests.
Request A Lumber SampleYellow Poplar (American Tulipwood –Liriodendron tulipifera) is a tall, fast growing, beautiful deciduous tree of eastern forests. Yellow Poplar trees grow taller than any other US hardwood species, and often with a limb free trunk making this versatile wood an excellent choice for a sustainable wood siding product. In fact, Yellow Poplar trees grow taller than any other US hardwood species.
Cambia Thermally Modified™ Yellow Poplar received a Durability Class of 1 from the Entwicklungs-und Prüflabor Holztechnologie in Dreden, Germany when tested to European Union wood durability standards.
| Specific gravity | 0.42 (12% M.C.) |
| Average Weight | 449 kg/m3 (12% M.C.) |
| Average Volumetric Shrinkage | 9.8% (Green to 6% M.C.) |
| Modulus of Elasticity | 10,894 MPa |
| Hardness | 2402 N |
Mechanical Properties of Cambia Thermally Modified™ Yellow Poplar (tested by the University of Maine according to ASTM D143) Please note these test results are specific to Cambia by NFP’s Thermally Modified™ Yellow Poplar.
| Average Modulus of Rupture –Bending Strength (PSI) | 11,186 |
| Average Modulus of Elasticity–Wood Stiffness (PSI) | 1,777,085 |
| Janka Ball Hardness Test Results- Average (LBS) | 507 |